Bourbon Curious: A Tasting Guide for the Savvy Drinker with Tasting Notes for Dozens of New Bourbons [Hardcover]

Award-winning whiskey writer and best-selling author Fred Minnick presents an easy-to-read interactive tasting journey that helps you select barrel-aged bourbons based on your flavor preferences.

“The world has been waiting for this book.”
—Jeffrey Morganthaler, author ofThe Bar BookandDrinking Distilled

In this updated edition ofBourbon Curious: A Tasting Guide for the Savvy Drinker—using the same tasting principles he offers in his Kentucky Derby Museum classesand as a judge at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition—Minnick cuts to the chase, dismissing brand marketing andjudging only the flavorof this all-American whiskey.

Bourbon Curiousgroups bourbon into four main flavor profiles—grain, nutmeg, caramel, and cinnamon. While many bourbons boast all four flavor notes, one delicious sensation typically overpowers the rest. This bookreveals more than 50 bourbon brands’ predominate tastesand suggestscocktail recipes to complement them. In addition, Minnick spends some timebusting bourbon’s myths; unraveling its mysteries; andexploring distiller secrets, disclosing the recipes you won’t find on a bottle’s label.

Thisupdated edition contains all the best new bourbonsandrevised tasting noteson any bourbons that have undergone a substantial change since the original edition. And like good-tasting bourbon,Bourbon Curiousis approachable to all!

Fred Minnickis a Wall Street Journal best-selling author and the writer of award-winning books, such asBourbon Curious,Bourbon,Rum Curious, andWhiskey Women. Minnick is the editor-in-chief ofBourbon+magazine, senior contributor toForbes, and co-founder of the popular Bourbon & Beyond Festival. He is the “bourbon authority” for the Kentucky Derby Museum and regularly appears il£i